STARKVILLE -- The Golden Triangle Planning and Development District Monday discussed resolutions for a pair of rural development grants that would help fund two Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs for transport and a back-hoe to be used in District 5.

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY -- Partial skeletal remains of an adult were found in a heavily wooded area in the Adaton community Tuesday.
The Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday the remains were found a quarter mile from Reed Road after receiving a call about a death in the area.

The love -- and the blood -- kept flowing Tuesday in Starkville. United Blood Services parked its mobile blood donation bus in the OCH Regional Medical Center parking lot hoping to collect 35 pints of blood. It was an optimistic goal, considering they collected just 18 in December.

STARKVILLE -- The Mississippi State University student found dead in an off-campus apartment more than a week ago died from an accidental drug overdose, Oktibbeha County Coroner Michael Hunt said.
Hunt received toxicology results from the state medical examiner, which showed Teresa Ann Veal, 20, died from an overdose of cocaine and heroin.

STARKVILLE -- Expansion plans by the Tennessee Valley Authority will give Starkville a new tool to recruit businesses.
TVA will build a 14-mile stretch of transmission lines that will cut through Clayton Village on Highway 182 past the Thad Cochran Research Park. The transmission lines will be completed by spring 2013.

STARKVILLE -- For many, the world at night goes unseen. The setting sun usually signifies the end of another day and the beginning of bedtime rituals and preparations for the morning. But for Brandon Turner, a shift manager at Walmart in Starkville, the "day" is just getting started.

One can glean plenty from a superintendent's relationship with the school board president.
Former Bulloch County School Board President David Ball doesn't have a negative word about Lewis Holloway, new superintendent of Starkville School District.